Post Tagged with: "thailand"
Sweden to train Thai Gripen Fighter Pilots
While the Royal Thai Air Force was receiving the first part delivery of its Gripen Fighters, six Thai pilots arrived in Sweden to receive their Gripen training. This is the second group of Thai pilots to be trained at Skaraborg Wing, F 7, in Sweden. For the next six months, they will combine theory classes [...]
Delivery of Gripen Fighter Aircraft to Thailand
At a ceremony in Thailand on February 22, FMV handed over six Gripen fighter aircraft of the latest C- and D-version to the Royal Thai Air Force. Just before Christmas, FMV delivered the first parts of the air defense systems that Sweden and Thailand agreed on in 2008. And today FMV completed its commitment by [...]
Live-fire training unites US, Thai troops
Two division-level generals from the Thai Army attended a live-fire exercise Feb. 11, combining troops from the Thai Royal Army and U.S. Army Alaska’s 3rd Battalion, 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment. The live-fire training was part of exercise Cobra Gold 2011, a regularly scheduled joint and coalition multinational exercise in Thailand designed to ensure regional peace [...]
Multinational officials plan for Cobra Gold 2012
Thailand: Military planners from more than 24 nations are in Thailand making a plan to deal with aggressive Arcadian military forces that took over a portion of neighboring Khuistan and Free Mojave on the subcontinent of Pacifica. The countries, timeline and scenario of the Arcadia situation are make-believe, but this staff exercise, part of Cobra [...]
Sweden Delivers Erieye AEW Aircraft to Thailand
At a ceremony in Linköping on December 13 FMV handed over a Saab 340 Erieye AEW and a Saab 340 for transport and training to the Royal Thai Air Force. It is the first elements of the integrated air defense system that Thailand has bought from Sweden. This is the first delivery from the agreement [...]
Thailand Requests F-16 Mid-Life Upgrade
WASHINGTON: The Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress Sept. 29 of a possible Foreign Military Sale to Thailand of a three-phased program to upgrade 18 F-16A/B Block 15 aircraft with the Mid-Life Upgrade (MLU) and associated parts, equipment, and logistical support for a complete package worth approximately $700 million. The Government of Thailand has requested [...]
Thai Offshore Patrol Vessel Takes Shape
BANGKOK, Thailand: Construction of the first BAE Systems designed Offshore Patrol Vessel for the Royal Thai Navy is now well underway in Thailand, as demonstrated this week at a formal keel laying ceremony at Bangkok Dock, the Company’s local partner. The occasion, attended by Thailand’s Royal representative, HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn and senior officials [...]
SAAB Unveils Thai Air Defence Solutions
At a ceremony at Saab’s factory in Linköping today, Saab unveiled the Thai integrated air defence system for its Thai customer. The ceremony was held to celebrate the contract between Sweden and Thailand. Many prominent guests attended the event including Commander in Chief, ACM Itthaporn Subhawong from the Royal Thai Air force, Gunnar Holmgen, General [...]
Five dead as Thai army battle ‘Red Shirts’
BANGKOK: At least five people, including an Italian journalist, were killed Wednesday during an army crackdown on an anti-government protest site in Bangkok, police and a hospital said. “An Italian man was shot and died before arriving at the hospital,” said Police Hospital director Jongjet Aoajenpong. “He’s a journalist. He was shot in the stomach,” [...]


